This recorded conversation, premiering in conjunction with In That Same Hour, brings together Gida Hamam with artists Elo Vega and Rogelio López Cuenca to discuss the latter’s practice and contribution to the exhibition through their work Aquí Estaba (Here it Was).

The discussion explores questions of extraction, dispossession, and the making of modern imaginaries that sit at the heart of the artists’ practice, while reflecting on the intersections between the histories Vega and López Cuenca engage in their own contexts and the wider realities bearing upon the present, opening onto resonances that exceed any single site. The conversation considers how artistic work can reveal the structures, erasures, and inheritances that continue to shape contemporary life, and how these histories remain entangled with the urgencies of this moment.

The discussion will take place in Spanish, with English and Arabic subtitles.

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